savageorange comments on How to not be a fatalist? Need help from people who care about true beliefs. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: savageorange 09 December 2013 03:07:14AM 1 point [-]

I like the SEP phrasing better, even though it's only slightly different:

"we are powerless to do anything other than what we actually do"

Feels more sensible because the tenses are not jumbled.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 09 December 2013 04:16:44AM 2 points [-]

I can't think of a meaning one sentence has that the other one doesn't, so I'm happy to use your preferred sentence.